My favorite thing about hobbits is how no other race has any idea how they work so they can just… bullshit their way through literally anything? Bilbo turns invisible and the dwarves just go “Yeah sounds about right, Gandalf did say they’re very sneaky” and don’t guess about the Ring. Frodo gets stabbed by a troll spear and survives unharmed and Aragorn goes “Oh right, hobbits are supposed to be resilient, that checks out. Very impressive!” and nobody thinks to ask if he’s got perhaps some kind of armor. I need to know what the line is. How weird does a hobbit need to get before they get called out??
I’d also like to point out the possibility that hobbits, who pride themselves in being so normal, might actually be the closest thing Middle-Earth has to faerie? Most people of most races are likely to never meet one, and if they do, they won’t understand how they work except that they seem to have vague powers that only show up randomly as needed. Like yeah, Galadriel is scary, but the world at large knows 5 hobbits and they allseem capable to handle dragons, wraiths, wizards and the armies of Mordor and Isengard and live to tell the tale. Can anything kill a hobbit? Unclear!
